Hook-and-eye fastener for textile materials



April 8 1924.

E. A. ANDERSON HOOK AND EYE FASTENER FOR TEXTILE MATERIALS Filed Sept. v26 1923 Patented Apr. 8, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOOK-AND-EYE ms'rnnna ron TEXTILE MATERIALS.

application filed September as, 1923. Serial no. 665,001.

To all whom iii-may concern: v

. Be it known that I, ELLEN ANN ANDER- SON, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing'a-t 31 Hubble Street, East Fremantle, Western Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hook-and-Eye Fasteners for Textile Materials, of which the following is a specification.

This invention provides a hook and eye fastener for wearing apparel and analogous uses-said fastener being adapted to be securely attached to the garment or material without the aid of sewing or stitching, thereby saving time and incidental monetary outlay. The invention comprises a hook member and an eye member each of which is hingeably secured to a base plate formed with retention teeth whereby said plate and thereto attached hook or eye is secured and anchored to the garment or material for use and service in the usual and well known manner.

The construction and use of my invention will be clearly set forth with the aid of the attached perspective drawings wherein Fig. 1 shows the base plate separate from its hook member proper. Fig. 2 shows said hook member. Fig. 3 shows the base plate separate from its eye member proper. Fig. 4 shows the eye member. Fig. 5 shows the hook member hingeably conjoined with its base plate and attached to the material, and Fig. 6 shows the eye member hingeably conjoined to its base plate and attached to the material. In said drawings the hook and eye members, together with their base plates are enlarged approximately four times their normal size.

Referring to the drawings in detail, Figs. 1, 2 and 5 illustrate the hooked member and its associated parts, the first two figures showing the parts disassembled and Fig. 5 showing the parts assembled and connected to a fabric or the like. It will be observed by referring to Fig. 1 that I provide a plate a having at one end a pair of tines or prongs (Z and at the opposite end a. pair of ears 6 connected by a pin a spaced from the plate member a. The hook member pro-per comprises a pair of parallel shanks 9 having eyes f at one end and connected at their other ends by means of a loop rebent upon the shanks g forming loop at j and providing a hook. The eye member of the combination is illustrated disassembled Figs. 3 and 4c and assembled with a strip of cloth or the like in" Fig. 6. a The eye construction comprises, a plate member 7:: having tines pat one endand'ears m at the'opposite end, the plate is being T- shaped and the ears located at the ends of the cross member of the T. The ears are connected as in the case of the ears 6 on the plate a by a rod or pin a spaced from the plate 70. Cooperating with the plate 7 is an eye member 25 provided wit-h eyes 8 at one end and formed in a loop at the other end, the two legs of the loops being connected by a tubular member an adapted to receive therethrough the pin a. The. plate a is assembled with the hook member by slipping the rebent loops under the pin 0 upon which the hook member may pivot in assembling the hook with a strip of cloth or the like. When the hook and strip are brou ht into position on opposite sides of the 50th, the hook member may be rocked on the pin 0 as a pivot, bringing the eyes f down upon the tines d, which are projected through the fabric, whereupon the ends of the tines may be bent outwardly as shown in Fig. 5, thus securely fastening the hook to the cloth and bracing the cloth between the shanks g and the plate a.

When the eye member 25 is connected to the plate, the said eye member may be rocked upon the pin it, so that the cloth to which it is to be attached may be passed through the eye member and its accompanying plate, and as in the case of the hook member, the eyes may then be-brought down upon the tines, which are projected throiwh the cloth and bent outwardly to secure t e eye in place upon the cloth.

It will be noted that by this construction I am enabled to securely fasten the hook and eye of a combination to their respective parts of a garment without stitching and in such a manner that they will 'be held in a proper position on said cloth for being readily hooked one int-o the other.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A fastening device for garments, com

prising a. plate having tines at one end thereof and ears at the opposite end, a pin connecting said ears and spaced from said plate, a hook pro er having eyes adapted to aline with said tines and having a portion thereof extending between said pin and plate.

2. In a fastening device for garments and the like, "a plate having titles at one end and ears at the opposite end, a pinco-nmeeting said ears and spaced from said plate, an eye'member having eye portions adapted to aline with said tines, and a loop having a tubular member "attached thereto and adapted to receive said pin. I

3. In ahook and eye arrangement, a plate, and-a fastening member hinged thereto adjacentvone'end; the opposite end of said plate havin tines tor securin the fastenln' 'inemher and the plate garment or the like.' 4. A hook and eye combination comprising plates having tines thereon at one end and ea'rsat the opposite endyhook and eye "members each respectively associated with one ofvsaid plates and secured-to L"f&b1i0 01 the like and its-respective plate by means "of said tines, "and aipivo't pin connecting my hand.

ELLEN ANN ANDERSON. 

